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Worker killed in Yokohama train accident

Yuli Tri Suwarni
The Jakarta Post
Bandung

An Indonesian worker was killed in a train accident on Monday
evening in Yokohama, said the head of the West Java's Manpower
and Transmigration Office.

Sukarto Karnen said the body of Didin Rapiudin, 24, a resident
of Majelengka, West Java, arrived in the country on Tuesday at 5
p.m. He cited Japan police reports that detailed the main
probable cause of Didin's death. The accident occurred at 8:20
p.m.

"Didin had worked for three years and his contract was about
to end in January," Sukarto told members of the West Java Council
commission in charge of labor issues.

The victim had worked at the concrete company Taisei Aichi
Ileon, he said.

Didin left for Japan in 2000 with 400 other workers from West
Java to work in an apprenticeship program under Japan's
Association of Small and Medium Industries and Indonesia's
Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration.

Sukarto said there are currently 3,000 Indonesians from West
Java working in Japan.

Didin's family will be compensated for their loss, he said.